Programming Minibot

[Christian Z]

well our team found robot c to be a good language when programing the minibot. The main reason was because when we did ftc we found some delay with Labveiw. Labveiw should work just fine though if you dont know how to program in robot c.

[BLAQmx]

For teams who are interested in obtaining a copy of LabVIEW Education Edition to program an NXT for their mini-bot, please contact National Instruments FRC phone support (866-511-6285 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Central Time) and request a copy from a support engineer. National Instruments will then ship your team a copy of LabVIEW Education Edition. Teams will be allowed to use the same serial number as provided to FTC teams to active their software.

Thanks,
Mark Black
National Instruments
LabVIEW R&D

[swwrobotics]

Can someone post a picture of how to wire your minibot so that no programming is needed? Our team is planning on using switches to turn our minibot on, but we keep blowing fuses in the battery. We're having trouble with this, so the help would be greatly appreciated!

[Techhexium]

Originally Posted by swwrobotics

Can someone post a picture of how to wire your minibot so that no programming is needed? Our team is planning on using switches to turn our minibot on, but we keep blowing fuses in the battery. We're having trouble with this, so the help would be greatly appreciated!

(Emphasis Mine)

To prevent fuses from blowing up you should either use 10A fuses or fix your wiring, meaning making sure there is no metal wiring that isn't underneath the wire sheath being exposed. My FTC has blown the fuses in our wiring but since we replaced them and fixed our wiring it hasn't happened again.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Tech,
Try removing your battery, connecting an ohmmeter to the battery connector on the robot and activating switches. If during the actuation your reading suddenly drops from low to very low, you have a switch that is shorting out the battery and blowing the fuse.

[Techhexium]

Thanks for the suggestion Al, but my FTC team (I'm not in FRC) doesn't need an ohmmeter/multimeter, and I already posted that the the batteries are fine now (it happened a few months ago). I'm certain the power switch is fine, the main problem was the end of the wires that were connected to the HiTechnic Controllers were exposed(no sheath protecting it), my team just removed the excess wiring and the batteries now work fine.

[NullEntity]

Originally Posted by cooldude8181

Why would you program the Mini-bot?

Everyone knows that code just adds excessive weight.

I remember an argument about that. The argument/math came out to the more code you have the less it weighs.

[Team 288]

Why program your Mini Bot at all? You will just be adding the weight of the NXT to the Mini Bot. Instead use the two light switches to turn the Mini Bot on and off again and leave the NXT at home.

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Team 288

Why program your Mini Bot at all? You will just be adding the weight of the NXT to the Mini Bot. Instead use the two light switches to turn the Mini Bot on and off again and leave the NXT at home.

That's the same principle we used.

[JohnFogarty]

This tread makes me chuckle a bit. Ok there are 2 languages really that you should use. either the LabVIEW with a FTC toolkit. or RobotC. Those who like C or Java or even LabVIEW programmers should be able to handle RobotC. It's really easy. say for example all you use are motors and a touch sensor. the code for that is this easy. All you have to use is a built in motors and sensors configuration program which you tell it the location of all of your hardware relative to the NXT. You won't have to use any specific templates due to the fact that the minibot is purely autonomous no outside control needed. for most robot's it's really this simple. Now from experience we aren't using the NXT system we are doing everything in hardware. that's why we have a 2.8 second minibot. sooo go at it as you wish.

wait1Msec(1200000) \\<--that's two minutes of wait time before enabling the while loop below so you wont have random wheels spinning the entire time.


while(nTouchsenor=0)
{
motor[motorD]=100;
motor[motorG]=100:
}
motor[motorD]=0; //or a negative number to drive it back down.
motor[motorG]=0;

[sutivnn]

sorry unrelated question but how do you start a forum or thread on chief delphi?

[oceanblack]

yo can actually get a NXT brick and use a program called NXT-G (free download form internet